Why hasn't man been able to create even a simple single celled form of life yet?

Why do you believe man should have been able to create a single celled life form, given that the current best approximation suggests it took nature a few hundred million years, and man has been trying to reproduce the event for at most a couple of hundred years?I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that ...

Why hasn't man been able to create even a simple single celled form of life yet?

Why do you believe man should have been able to create a single celled life form, given that the current best approximation suggests it took nature a few hundred million years, and man has been trying to reproduce the event for at most a couple of hundred years?

bobby

I didn't say "man should have." How do you know what happened before you became aware? You weren't there so how do you know? What IS nature to you? Is there anything that has been proven to you to your satisfaction without witnessing it?

Why hasn't man been able to create even a simple single celled form of life yet?

Why do you believe man should have been able to create a single celled life form, given that the current best approximation suggests it took nature a few hundred million years, and man has been trying to reproduce the event for at most a couple of hundred years?

bobby

I didn't say "man should have." How do you know what happened before you became aware? You weren't there so how do you know? What IS nature to you? Is there anything that has been proven to you to your satisfaction without witnessing it?

Why hasn't man been able to create even a simple single celled form of life yet?

Has anyone attempted to? Are you sure it hasn't been done?

It has indeed been attempted.
Originally, success was touted.
Unfortunately, I cannot find anything that still touts it as a success. I guess the beaker was contaminated?
I do not know where I originally heard of the experiment. I'd like to say "Cosmos", but something tells me I am wrong.

Why hasn't man been able to create even a simple single celled form of life yet?

Has anyone attempted to? Are you sure it hasn't been done?

It has indeed been attempted.
Originally, success was touted.
Unfortunately, I cannot find anything that still touts it as a success. I guess the beaker was contaminated?
I do not know where I originally heard of the experiment. I'd like to say "Cosmos", but something tells me I am wrong.

I believe you missed a word at about 28 seconds and the same at about 58 seconds. It is an experiment to build amino acids and it worked. AFIK no one has tried to go from amino acids to life. Bit harder to put a black smoker and a tide pool in a flask.

Why hasn't man been able to create even a simple single celled form of life yet?

Why do you believe man should have been able to create a single celled life form, given that the current best approximation suggests it took nature a few hundred million years, and man has been trying to reproduce the event for at most a couple of hundred years?

bobby

I didn't say "man should have." How do you know what happened before you became aware? You weren't there so how do you know? What IS nature to you? Is there anything that has been proven to you to your satisfaction without witnessing it?

Indeed you didn't say "man should have", you asked "why hasn't". When one asks "why hasn't such and such thing been done" the implication is that it should have been done. If you did not intend the implication then my apologies, otherwise you are being disingenuous.

How does one know anything? What in the quoted post suggests I know anything of what took place billions of years ago? Nature to me encompasses all things all matter/energy, forces, their interactions and everything that arises from them. And to your final question, yes, for instance, my parents had sex about 9 months before I was born, while I did not witness the event, it has been proven to my satisfaction.I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that ...

I believe you missed a word at about 28 seconds and the same at about 58 seconds. It is an experiment to build amino acids and it worked. AFIK no one has tried to go from amino acids to life. Bit harder to put a black smoker and a tide pool in a flask.

Why hasn't man been able to create even a simple single celled form of life yet?

... And to your final question, yes, for instance, my parents had sex about 9 months before I was born, while I did not witness the event, it has been proven to my satisfaction.

For doing that the 'hard way' outside the machinery of cellular life, various groups are indeed putting together the tools and examples for doing just that. However, the immense detail required is expensive and so there is a long way to go yet... There's going to be some fantastic medical spin-offs as a result.

As for why we're not able... Well, we are! Looks like I've been beaten to that answer for working within the existing cellular machinery!

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Nobody has yet proved there is a god, therefore how can anyone guess or imagine what one might have been doing before "creation". Nobody has proved that any god created us either, therefore it is a nonsense question.

If it was re-worded to ask "Assuming that there is a god, and assuming that this god did create the world and the universe, then what did this god do before that?" then you might have a basis for some conjecture. Even then there is simply too much assumption. This is a waste of time!

Nobody has yet proved there is a god, therefore how can anyone guess or imagine what one might have been doing before "creation". Nobody has proved that any god created us either, therefore it is a nonsense question.

If it was re-worded to ask "Assuming that there is a god, and assuming that this god did create the world and the universe, then what did this god do before that?" then you might have a basis for some conjecture. Even then there is simply too much assumption. This is a waste of time!